And we are back to Square 1 as Sony implicates Anonymous to US House Probe

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Kasz216 on 04 May 2011

Ail said:

Kasz216 said:

Ail said:

Vetteman94 said:

Ail said:

thranx said:

No i dont agree. I have yet to see sony supporters reconcile the fact that sony did not keep their server software up to date which is a basic security task.

You know the only information we have concerning that is a guy reporting they were running an old version of Apache.

That version while not being up todate had no known security hole...

I thought that it did have a known vulnerability that was fixed on the later versions

This is the list of apache vulnerabilities :

http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_22.html

Supposedly sony was running 2.2.15.

The only vulnerabilities listed related to DoS, not breaching the machine...

According to sony... themselves. Their security was broken by a known security vulernability they weren't aware of.

Can you point me toward where Sony gave details about how the breach happened ? I would like to know more about that...

The only details they gave was that it was a Known vulernability that they themselves did not know about.

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/PSN-Hack-Exploit-Data-Theft-Credit-Cards,news-11050.html

Also present at the press conference was Chief Information Officer Shinji Hasejima, who revealed that the attack actually exploited a “known vulnerability” in the web application server platform used in PSN. According to the Reg, Hasejima admitted that though it was generally known, Sony management were not aware of it. To that end, the company has created a new role of ‘chief information security officer’ in an effort to prevent history repeating itself. Hasejimi refused requests for more information on the server platform used, or the vulnerability exploited, for security reasons.

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Profcrab on 04 May 2011

I have to say, I would not be surprised if Sony framed Anonymous for it. Anonymous is a super easy target and Anonymous itself likely has no way of even knowing if the accusation is correct or not. Not only that, many people will want to believe it's Anonymous. Of course, it is also possible that someone else is framing them for it.

My guess is that they were hacked by someone looking to make money from the information and they were working on getting more credit card info when Sony shut down the network. It was a good time to do it because they had been threatened by the now infamous Anonymous. The Anonymous file could have been left by them, again because the US government would like to use that to justify more raids on people's computers and would bite on that bait. Sony could also have put it there as a way to go from negligent company to victim of super-hackers. With this event potentially costing them tens of millions, if not hundreds, over the course of the next few years, they will take any PR advantage they can get.

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Profcrab said:

I have to say, I would not be surprised if Sony framed Anonymous for it. Anonymous is a super easy target and Anonymous itself likely has no way of even knowing if the accusation is correct or not. Not only that, many people will want to believe it's Anonymous. Of course, it is also possible that someone else is framing them for it.

My guess is that they were hacked by someone looking to make money from the information and they were working on getting more credit card info when Sony shut down the network. It was a good time to do it because they had been threatened by the now infamous Anonymous. The Anonymous file could have been left by them, again because the US government would like to use that to justify more raids on people's computers and would bite on that bait. Sony could also have put it there as a way to go from negligent company to victim of super-hackers. With this event potentially costing them tens of millions, if not hundreds, over the course of the next few years, they will take any PR advantage they can get.

Anonymous are easy to frame cause no one knows who they are.

Anonymous ate my homework

Anyone who's breaking the law is obvious a criminal.

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Profcrab said:

I have to say, I would not be surprised if Sony framed Anonymous for it. Anonymous is a super easy target and Anonymous itself likely has no way of even knowing if the accusation is correct or not. Not only that, many people will want to believe it's Anonymous. Of course, it is also possible that someone else is framing them for it.

My guess is that they were hacked by someone looking to make money from the information and they were working on getting more credit card info when Sony shut down the network. It was a good time to do it because they had been threatened by the now infamous Anonymous. The Anonymous file could have been left by them, again because the US government would like to use that to justify more raids on people's computers and would bite on that bait. Sony could also have put it there as a way to go from negligent company to victim of super-hackers. With this event potentially costing them tens of millions, if not hundreds, over the course of the next few years, they will take any PR advantage they can get.

you mean plant fake evidence inside a server that the FBI is investigating?

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Profcrab on 04 May 2011

CaptainObvious said:

Anonymous are easy to frame cause no one knows who they are.

Anonymous ate my homework

Too true. Their publicity has likely been a huge gift to cybercriminals. Besides, what does it take to leave a small file behind? Just upload an ominous text file and there you go! Framed! No one who thinks about it very long will buy it 100%, but most people will just hear it on the news and the evidence will be good enough for them.

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CaptainObvious on 04 May 2011

Anonymous could be anyone.

Anyone who's breaking the law is obvious a criminal.

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Kasz216 on 04 May 2011

Profcrab said:

I have to say, I would not be surprised if Sony framed Anonymous for it. Anonymous is a super easy target and Anonymous itself likely has no way of even knowing if the accusation is correct or not. Not only that, many people will want to believe it's Anonymous. Of course, it is also possible that someone else is framing them for it.

My guess is that they were hacked by someone looking to make money from the information and they were working on getting more credit card info when Sony shut down the network. It was a good time to do it because they had been threatened by the now infamous Anonymous. The Anonymous file could have been left by them, again because the US government would like to use that to justify more raids on people's computers and would bite on that bait. Sony could also have put it there as a way to go from negligent company to victim of super-hackers. With this event potentially costing them tens of millions, if not hundreds, over the course of the next few years, they will take any PR advantage they can get.

I dunno. I think it makes more sense for a hacker to take all of 5 seconds to put it in there as any easy deflector.